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Comment by brokencode

4 hours ago

Did they kill hundreds of thousands of poor people by shutting down USAID too?

I'm curious, is this true or something you heard from MSM and regurgitated?

  • > Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 051 750 (uncertainty interval 8 475 990–19 662 191) additional all-age deaths, including 4 537 157 (3 124 796–5 910 791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030.

    https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(25)01186-9/full...

    So for comparison, Pol Pot only killed 3 million people in total according to upper bound estimates.

  • As opposed to what? Going down to Africa to count the bodies myself?

    Of course I read about it in the media. And there are articles from Harvard, UCLA, and others that say the same thing

  • So you think a malaria prevention program can be canceled without notice and no one will die from that?

    The only people who believe that do not believe in anything. They think there is no such thing as competence or honesty because they have never experienced it.